Comments on: Teach Me Something Tuesday #16

By: Phonetic Phun on a Phriday « 360

Phonetic Phun on a Phriday « 360 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:07:47 +0000

[...] Phun on a Phriday By TwoPi Last August, ? and I were inspired by a post about the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet at our favorite non-math blog, puntabulous, to create a satirical version, one that would be [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:08:41 +0000

Nice! I hardly use the radio alphabet, except V for Victor, which has somehow crept into common usage. Tangent: one time when I was making an appointment over the phone to see a doctor, the receptionist said, “You’ll be seeing Doctor Gayer. Like Bayer, but with a G.”

And of course I wanted to say, “Or like, more gay.”

By: LiteralDan

LiteralDan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:41:22 +0000

This is my first visit here (thanks, StumbleUpon!) but I think I can safely say that you may in fact be extremely awesome.

I’m still laughing over “K as in Knife”, and probably will be whenever I think of it for quite some time.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:01:43 +0000

Thanks Erica! I’m really proud of the community we’ve managed to built here at Puntabulous and I contribute it to all my great readers! Hope you stick around!

By: E as in Erica

E as in Erica — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:58:09 +0000

This is the second post i’m seeing on the topic of fun facts and i must say your comments are hilarious .. it’s nice to see a friendly chatter not a comment space where people are just raggin on each other… it’s ok to be diffrent.. being a dork ROCKS!

By: Gokitty

Gokitty — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:17:11 +0000

This is very strange because just today I became intensely interested in learning the military alphabet (been watching Generation Kill) and was playing this game with my friends at work. Lo and behold, you just happen to post about it today.

I will add that the military make their own silly, well silly to me, phrases using their alphabet. Like “whiskey tango” is “white trash”, “oscar mike” is “on the move”, and “november tango” is “coffee” (you’ll have to read their logic behind that one on your own).

oscar mike golf!

By: Kimi

Kimi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:55:45 +0000

Y as in you

By: john

john — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:41:00 +0000

Craig for the win!

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:18:23 +0000

TwoPi: T as in Tsunami

By: Kimi

Kimi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:00:20 +0000

PS – I don’t have a funny example of my own yet, but I remember reading on someone else’s blog a few months ago (sorry, can’t remember who, hopefully I’m not violating any copyright laws here!) that he heard his wife saying to someone on the phone “I as in eyeball”.